Direct Foreign
Investment
Last year – and most
likely this year again
–, a rare event took
place in Costa Rica,
when direct foreign
investment covered the
deficit of the current
account, the shortage of
foreign currency
resulting from the fact
that the goods and
services the country
bought abroad surpassed
those that it exported.
According to the Banco
Central de Costa Rica
(Central Bank), direct
foreign investment
reached us$1.469 billion
in 2006 and it is
estimated at us$1.650
billion this year.
Last year, almost half
of that investment came
from the United States
and one fifth from
Canada. Analysts
considered this a major
signal of the stability
of the economy of the
country.
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